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that has to be one of the most brilliant ideas for a titan I have ever seen XD.

[Solar_lion - Thanks! If you're vacuuming the silicon after a while it will slowly simmer down. The bubbles will continue to rise for almost 5 minutes and then at some time, the bubbles will slow to almost a crawl, this is usually the time I pull it out. It's pretty much a pressure pot (for forcing the resin into the molds), and a vacuum chamber. The pump I found on ebay, same with the pressure pot.

@Foda: Just awesome again! anyway I planned on using some struct point counter too,but I decided to use number LEDs instead, that would simplify the circuit i'd use I think.
Keep up the great work on your warhounds, theyre shaping up nicely, hope to see them rip enemies on the tabletop soon

Solar_lion wrote:

So pressure out when forming the mold, pressure in when forming the resin? what size vacume pump do you use ? you jjust reverse the hoses?
any recomendations?

I apologize if this is off thread, I've neve seen someone do this large of a project before.

That looks very cool! All this hard work will be worth it in the end.

Nice reactor effects as well, the good ideas on this project keeps on coming!

I ....uh....I can make a nice sandwich.....holycrapdude....

re-read the whole blog again and got you point. thanks. Now off to shopping for stuff.

eagerly waiting for the next installment.

I am now convinced that you are one of the Mythbusters....

Most impressive.

Foda must have been busy these past weeks

Commander Cain - Thanks!

mindfield - Thanks!

worldwarme - Thanks!

Solar_lion - Thanks! I hope the lists and semi how-to helped. There are plenty of youtube videos of casting that I've seen, it's a great resource I wish I would have had when I started up.

Rabid Ferret - Thanks?

ToxicsLayer - Thanks!

mindfield - You are correct sir! Three tests and 4 programming assignment make this final semester a heck of a chore! What work I did get done wasn't really worth photographing as it was mainly drilling out the other 4 bodies.

As I said earlier

Well I finally got my Battlefoam cases in but there was a slight problem. I had originally discussed with Romeo the way the case would hold the warhounds was standing up in a pack max. However when I got my cases in it turns out that the titans were split in half!

However this was only 1/2 of the problem the foammy genius lumped into my lap. The Pack MAX bag only held 3 of the 4 titans! So one angry call to Romeo and after some chit-chat I ordered another bag (a 720) to hold the final titan. Now I have enough foam to fit Romeo's chins!

Here are the photos of the bags:

The big bag!


Top layer


Bottom layer


The little bag


Top layer


Bottom Layer


These legs are not fully crouched so they stick up a bit



He's got breathing room!


I absolutely love these bags. I wish he could have got all 4 into the MAX like we'd discussed but he said they wouldn't fit.

I know some of y'all may have been worried that if I get a little carried away spinning the titan tops off of the legs that they may fly off and destroy the body (well you would be if you knew me). So here's a shot with the bolt just set in place.


As you can see its set in a ways so it's not going to just come loose if it's not tightened.

So y'all may remember the old plug system for the "toy" gun. Well I wasn't always happy with it and on our last LED excursion we came across these new connectors on the right.


The female end of these connectors was epoxied into a plastic plate which will set over the old holes.


Tonight we pulled out the big punches and started the process of making them fit in.


Yay skulls!

Very nice, the titans have their mechanicum transport system in place!
Also nice updates, keep up the good work!

Jesus! These are professionally built! Superlative work with the casting and electronics. Your next projext should be building one of these beasts for me!!!

love it. can you put a normal GW fig, next to it. Trying to get a scale. can you give me some rough dim.

your gonna stun somone when you roll out that bag!

The bags look great but it looks as though that titan top will rattle around in the bag. Does it hold it securely in some way? The 'Breathing room' may be a bad thing....

mindfield - Thanks!

Element206 - Thanks! I'm afraid I'm not going to be building any more. However you're more than welcome to drive about an hour north and play against them

Solar_lion - Thanks! There's some pics on page 9 before we attached the feet with a marine next to it. The feet only add about an inch to the height.

InyokaMadoda - That was one of my questions with Romeo but he said that I had apparently drawn that size (although my drawings say different and smaller). I plan on drilling a small hole in the 1/4 spacer and letting bolt slip through so it will hold them a little more securely. There's no fragile parts on the torso but it's something I'm aware of.

Here's a pic of the progress achieved last night. It doesn't look like much but the 4 of them took almost 2 hours. The toy's wires were soldered to the connector, each was wrapped in heat shrink, then that whole assembly was wrapped in heat shrink.

I wish I had time to build a Warhound titan :(

Foda_Bett wrote:
InyokaMadoda - That was one of my questions with Romeo but he said that I had apparently drawn that size (although my drawings say different and smaller). I plan on drilling a small hole in the 1/4 spacer and letting bolt slip through so it will hold them a little more securely. There's no fragile parts on the torso but it's something I'm aware of.

Are all four of the titans the same size? And are all four of the titan holes the same size? It's hard to judge scale from the photo but it looks like the tray with three titan holes has smaller holes than the tray with one hole...? If that is the case, Romeo may be willing to do it again.

I can't believe I missed the restart of this.

I almost forgot how superb this project was.

I'm back on board.

Totally slick! I may have to steal your amazing idea Funnily enough I was tinkering around with a diode cell just before I found this thread

Asherian Command - It's rather easy to find time. I usually put in about 6 hours a week if I'm lucky! Just do a little every night and you'll be surprised how it adds up.

InyokaMadoda - They're all the same size, and he's not willing to do it again.

Brother Bartius - Thanks! Welcome back!

The Dark Lord Mr Fluffy - Thanks! Feel free, thats why we're posting this thread.


While not at ton of work has been accomplished since last time a little bit has. The female ends of the connector's pins were soldered onto the toy's circuit board and then attached to the gun from earlier.

The female ends you can see attached to the gun pins (from last time) will slip into the black connector part (from the post before last).

These were then set aside in a very safe place with the dashboards, reactors, and headlights. It's starting to look like it's cockpit painting time!

Here's a picture of the full assembly

Sound effects? That is sweet!

Yeah! sound effects! Similar to the foghorn sound circuit I'd put on my own titan project
Good work Foda, keep it up.

This is the most amazing project i've ever seen.

almost dropped dead!

I'm so envious that I now hate you.

*passes out*


*comes to*


*passes out again*



I might have to kill you soon.

ToxicsLayer - Thanks! I just couldn't let the rest of the toy go to waste.

mindfield - Thanks! I don't know abouta fog horn, although it would be hillarious to see the expression on your enemies faces when you hit it for the first time.

thorgir - Thanks!

jabbakahut - Thanks?

HadoukenAvenger - Thanks?

Well I've been a bit under the weather and under the school work this week but tonight I managed to get a little bit done.
First up do y'all remember this?

That's the inside of the damage counter LEDs. They're rather exposed to the elements sitting out there. So The old man came up with a cool solution.

It's a neat little shelf piece. Now you'd think that would be really easy to make... well so did I but I was wrong.

Here's the 2 pieces that form the L bracket.


This is glued together and set in the cool little jig


It is then clamped down so it will dry in as close to 90 degrees as we can make


So while he was making 2 of those I was busy burning the tar out of myself cutting the vents we need for the sides of the body. We've got to let those cool sound effects come out some how so here's the plan. First we found some cool vents at the hardware shop. Apparently they're for attics but I can't imagine having to install enough of these things to make a difference.

As you can see it's been cut down quite a bit. Let me tell you though that tin + dremel tool = very hot very fast. Also if you loose your grip on the little buggers the first place it goes is right towards your eye.

So after all those were chopped up we glued them into the body


We also decided to start masking off for the coat of primer that I should be putting down next week.
First up was masking the holes in the wings.


I took some cosmetic foam rounds can cut them to be slightly bigger than the hole. Squished them down and viowla! The cosmetic foam will expand back out to fill the area but not put enough pressure on stuff to cause any damage! This will come in handy when I'm masking the cockpit.


Finally I took some putty and cramed it into the rector wiring trenches. This will keep the paint from changing the color of our wires, and generally causing havoc.

Next up is building more L brackets for the damage lights, masking the damage lights, and generally preparing for priming!

Just great Would be a very very daunting task to follow on this project. 4 warhounds in a row, just awesome man.

Finally, been waiting for the first signs of paint. i really hope it goes well for you after the time and effort you have put in. Maybe follow on this project with a 4 reavers mega build